FOR LITERACY ORGANIZATIONS
Overview Toolkit Join a Coalition Technical Assistance
Resources for Literacy Organizations
If you are a health literacy professional or volunteer, health literacy should be important to you. Join a Health Literacy Study Circle (Hall/NCSALL) to learn about health literacy. Learn how to assess health literacy needs among literacy students, or how to incorporate health into literacy teachings. Use the links below and our Toolkit for Literacy Organizations to get started.
Plain Language - Improving communication from the federal government to the public.
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/index.cfm
Provides history of plain language, examples, tools, and resources for creating plain language documents.
NEWS
Local Health Literacy Coalitions LaunchingThe NCHLC has received funding from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of North Carolina to help develop health literacy coalitions across the state.
Read more about the
Coalitions Launch
EVENTS
- 7MAYHealth Literacy: Bridging Research and Practice, Institute for Healthcare Advancement Health Literacy Conference
Irvine, CA. - 14MAYHealth Literacy & HIV Workshop, presented by Linda Connor Community Education Coordinator DUMC Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
United Way of Greensboro.
